PMTiles is a single-file archive format for pyramids of tiled data. - Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world / offline

• PMTiles / HN a production-ready, single-file, static container for vector tiles built around HTTP range requests.
  • PMTiles is a general format for tiled data addressed by Z/X/Y coordinates. This can be cartographic basemap vector tiles, remote sensing observations, JPEG images, or more.
  • PMTiles readers use HTTP Range Requests to fetch only the relevant tile or metadata inside a PMTiles archive on-demand.

# Globes ⮺ 🌍

# Geolibre ⮺

A free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data.

• online

# Marble ⮺

un globe terrestre virtuel et un atlas mondial

# God’s Eye View ⮺ 🌐

• God’s Eye View Just Got a Massive Upgrade (Thanks To You!)
  • Florida Learjet Crash - Final 78 Seconds Reconstructed in God’s Eye View

# Georadios ⮺ 🎶

Show HN: GeoRadios – Spin a globe, hear what’s on the radio there

# Map 🗺️

• Why NUKEMAP isn’t on Google Maps anymore
• Shipmap.org / HN - map of ship travelling ocean
• submarine cable map - on a glob
  • How a subsea cable is repaired (2021) / Mother Earth Mother Board
• The_Victorian_Internet (subsea telegraph network) / HN - Alice Springs exists because it was a repeater station for a telegraph line that stretched from Southern Australia all the way to London.

# OpenStreetMap ⮺

see alsp

• OpenFreeMap

# Martin ⮺

Martin is a tile server and a set of tools able to generate vector tiles on the fly from large PostgreSQL databases and GeoJSON files, and serve tiles from PMTiles and MBTiles files. - Demo

• self hosting
• Martin

see also

• MapLibre Tile: A next generation geospatial format optimized for rendering / 2
• Serving a custom vector web map using PMTiles and maplibre-gl
• How to implement a tile service ?

# Cartography

# OpenDroneMap ⮺